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Local Area Security Linux 0.4a
Anonymous Coward writes "Local Area Security Linux is a small 'live CD' distribution based on Knoppix that aims at being less than 185MB so it will fit on a MiniCD. It is now 107MB with FluxBox as the window manager. It contains about 100 security (forensics, penetration testing, firewall, intrusion detection, etc.) tools including Ethereal and Nessus. See a screenshot here."
So is this a security or hacking cd? Seems like some good tools to me.
Can you ping me now?... Good!
Live CDs like knoppix are all very lovely but when's the day that I can roll out my own live CDs without TOO much effort? Just select the packages you want, kernel, drivers, etc, wait as the program churns out a nice ISO for you which you can burn to a CD and voila, insta-Linux! Now that would seriously rock as you can simply modify all the basics as you see fit and can easily alter the whole deal for bugfixes.
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I'm getting to really love these things. If it's got ssh, scp, ethereal, port scanner, and a few other goodies, this thing's gonna rock.
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
How about an version that you can (easily) put on an USB flash memory card and boot from there?
In the real world, you don't always have permission to take a box down to perform forensics. Rebooting == downtime. Booting into Linux from a CD to inspect == downtime. When you *are* granted permission to take down a box for forensics analysis (you have to get permission in a search warrant for this, or permission from the company that wants you to investigate, but this is rarely feasable), you'll probably be working for a large firm that can afford forensics tools that cost tons of cash and do much more advanced forensics analysis than the forensics software for Linux.
This sounds more like another goodies CD for people to mess around with at school. Or perhaps something to give people Linux demos with. Who knows. I wouldn't market it as a forensics tool, though.
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You should be able to customize what is on the knoppix cd fairly easy already. If you look at the Knoppix cheatcodes, for manipulating hardware detection, there is a note in there about remastering the cd:
:)
If you wish to remaster the CD, please don't forget to specify
-b KNOPPIX/boot.img
for the german version of the bootfloppy, or
-b KNOPPIX/boot-en.img
for the english version, as option to mkisofs. Otherwise your CD
won't be bootable. The directory KNOPPIX, containig the compressed
filesystem file "KNOPPIX", must be located in the top level
directory of the CD.
So, just take the knoppix ISO, copy to disk and modify away. Then use mkisofs with the -b flag to make your new custom ISO.
Why is it flame-bait when someone states an obvious fact? I have no problem with jews or any other religion/group of people - but more and more I am finding it hard not to be an anti-semite. As the parent poster pointed out, why do the Jews never learn?
It seems to me that everyone that answers a question by invoking God (Allah etc..) you are sentencing yourself and your children to death. Doesn't the fact that deaths caused by religious fundamentalism out number any disease (plaque, aids etc..)combined click in the mind of the most logic challenge that this is not the correct path? Doesn't murdering people - at all - tell you that you are as wrong as the murderers you are fighting?
Want peace? Remove god from the equation and you'll be on the short path (not there, but almost - you need to establish secular morality first)
no, I didn't forget the AC button, I truly believe what I say, mod me the way you like, but I speak truth.
ymmv